When our family was traveling in India, we visited a pagan temple famous for its sculpture. While climbing it I fell, badly injuring my hip. I had allowed myself to be shocked by some of the stories and by the life style depicted, and at first suffered more from that than from the hip.
The next days in Nepal I was able to get around, although limping badly. At night in bed, the pain became extreme. I had time to ponder Mrs. Eddy's words (Science and Health, pp. 369-370): "It is error even to murmur or to be angry over sin. To be every whit whole, man must be better spiritually as well as physically." I realized that it was wrong to even be shocked by sin, of the past or present, for this made a reality of it.
I am grateful to have had a Sunday School teacher who early taught us the value of memorizing passages from the Bible and, particularly, Science and Health. A statement I have used in reference to falling is from this book (p. 264): "We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being." The psalms have always been an inspiration, especially the ninety-first and the twenty-third.
